Cool Digital Tools to Use in the Classroom

Web 2.0 Reading and Writing Workshop Tools and Resources



Click on the links below to take you to explore many apps that can help you use technology in the reading and writing workshop with your students:

Digital Writing Tools

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A mind map is a graphical representation of ideas and concepts. It's a visual thinking tool for structuring information, helping you to better understand, remember and generate new ideas.


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Is a simple video screen capture software for Chrome. It is an easy way to record, edit, annotate, store, and share video screen recordings. Record a specific tab or your whole desktop at the click of a button.

eLibrary

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ReadWorks
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Biblionasium

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Interactive Apps


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A Kahoot is a collection of questions on specific topics. Created by teachers, students, business-people and social users, they are asked in real-time, to an unlimited number of “players”, creating a social, fun and game-like learning environment.
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Essential Blogging Apps
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10 Free Blogging Tools for Teachers
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Twitterfeed- Teachers who blog and use Twitter will love Twitterfeed. This free web-based app tweets blog posts automatically so that you can share blog content with your Twitter followers.

EBook Apps
Book Creator
Book Creator


Bring your books to life add your text, images, video, music, narration, and use all of your content to tell a whole story.
Shadow Puppet Edu
Shadow Puppet Edu


Shadow Puppet Edu Easily create videos in the classroom! Students as young as five can make videos to tell stories, explain ideas, or document their learning. 30+ lesson ideas supporting Common Core make it easy to get started!

https://spark.adobe.com/about/video
https://spark.adobe.com/about/video

Adobe Spark, allow both web and mobile users to create and share visual content – like posts for social media, graphics, web stories, and animated videos.

Digital Corkboards
Digital Corkboard
Digital Corkboard
Digital Corkboards such as Padlet, Linoit, Popplet, and Corkulous (pay for these two iPad apps but worth it) are great thinking tools. Students use these online tools to collect their thinking while reading. Online post its, graphics, as well as items from all over the web can be added to a students digital corkboard to show and record thinking.
Digital Corkboard Samples
Organize thinking by: chapters, characters, illustrated responses, notes during conference, unknown words, annotated thinking, main idea with supporting details, buddy reading activities, etc. etc.

Glogster
Glogster

Glogster is a Web 2.0 tool that allows users to create virtual posters combining text, audio, video, images, and hyperlinks and to share them with others electronically. Using Glogster’s educational siteGlogster EDU, teachers can establish class lists and monitor student activity while protecting privacy and anonymity. Watch Glogster video tutorials.

Teaching with Glogster lesson plans (Read/Write/Think)



Quick Response Readers
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Quick Response Code Generator and Readers A QR Code is a two-dimensional barcode that is readable by smartphones. It allows to encode over 4000 characters in a two dimensional barcode. QR Codes may be used to display text to the user, to open a URL, save a contact to the address book or to compose text messages. "QR Code" is a registered trademark of DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED.

Augmented Learning
Augmented Learning


Augmented reality allows someone to add another layer to an existing image. For example, imagine holding your phone over a poster on the wall as if you were going to take a photo of that poster, and then instantly a video starts playing to offer you additional information about that particular poster.

So many ways to use the FREE and easy App Aurasma in your literacy classroom:


Online Reading Apps and Websites

Free Online Reading Apps and Websites
Free Demo/Free Trial/Subscribe: